Frontiers in Psychology (Aug 2022)

Situation aware intelligent reasoning during disaster situation in smart cities

  • Kiran Saleem,
  • Salwa Muhammad Akhtar,
  • Makia Nazir,
  • Ahmad S. Almadhor,
  • Yousaf Bin Zikria,
  • Rana Zeeshan Ahmad,
  • Sung Won Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.970789
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Investigating prior methodologies, it has come to our knowledge that in smart cities, a disaster management system needs an autonomous reasoning mechanism to efficiently enhance the situation awareness of disaster sites and reduce its after-effects. Disasters are unavoidable events that occur at anytime and anywhere. Timely response to hazardous situations can save countless lives. Therefore, this paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) with a situation-awareness method utilizing NB-IoT, cyan industrial Internet of things (IIOT), and edge intelligence to have efficient energy, optimistic planning, range flexibility, and handle the situation promptly. We introduce the belief-desire-intention (BDI) reasoning mechanism in a MAS to enhance the ability to have disaster information when an event occurs and perform an intelligent reasoning mechanism to act efficiently in a dynamic environment. Moreover, we illustrate the framework using a case study to determine the working of the proposed system. We develop ontology and a prototype model to demonstrate the scalability of our proposed system.

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